Check-rack and check for timekeepers.



No. 805,378. PATENTED NOV. 21, 1905.

. A. A; NEWMAN.

CHECK BACK AND CHECK FOR TIMEKEEPERS.

APPLICATION FILED DEO.22, 1904.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHECK-RACK AND CHECK FOR TIME KEEPEHS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 21, 1905.

Original application filed September 9,1904, Serial No. 223.810. Divided and this application filed December 22,1904. Serial '10 aLL whom it may concern" Be it known that I, ABRAHAM A. NEWMAN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Check-Racks and Checks for Timekeepers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in check-racks and checks for timekeepers; and its object is to produce a device of this class which shall have certain advantages which will appear more fully and at large in the course of this specification.

My device is fully described in an application for patent on cabinets and racks for timekeepers filed September 9, 1904:, Serial No.

223,810, from which the present case has been divided. The relation of the portion of my invention herein claimed to the cabinet of a timekeeper is fully illustrated and described in the aforesaid application, and no further description thereof will be necessary in this specification. The invention herein claimed is capable of embodiment in a number of different forms and is fully illustrated in'its preferred form in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is an elevation of aportion of the rack. Fig. 2 is a full-size detail section through the rack in line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one of the bars upon which the checks are hung; and Fig. 4 is an elevation of one of the boards, showing its general proportions with two of the check-hook bars in position.

Referring to the drawings, A is a suitable board, preferably one of the side boards of a cabinet, and said board is provided with a plurality of parallel horizontal slots, in which are inserted the edges of the check-hook bars B. The said check-hook bars are held in place by locking-bars B, which engage with their ends. These check-hook bars are made up of sheet metal and have one edge turned up, as illustrated, the upturned edges being notched to provide a plurality of pairs of upwardly projecting tongues 6 Z) Z2 If. It will be seen from the drawings that the notches in these check-hook bars are differently disposed in the various pairs, so that the upwardly-projecting tongues in the pairs are of different distances from each other. In the form of the device herein illustrated, which is the preferred form of construction, four different arrangements of tongues are used. The tongues b b are the closest together, the tongues 6 Z) are slightly farther apart, and so on to the tongues b 6 which are the farthest apart. The adjacent check-hook bars are so placed that the tongues on one bar lie opposite the smooth spaces on the next, and the tongues b b on one bar are placed between the pairs of tongues b 6 on the adjacent bars. so that throughout the rack the like pair of tongues are removed as far from each other as possible. A plurality of checks C, C, C and C are pro vided, such checks being numbered in succession from 1 upward, and each check is provided with two holes, which can be hooked over the corresponding tongues on the checkhook bars.

It will be obvious that with four different arrangements of tongues four different kinds of checks must be used having perforations at as many distances from each other. In practice two entire racks are mounted on opposite sides of a given cabinet, one bearing checks marked In, such as are herein shown, and

the other bearing checks exactly similar, but marked Out. V

The arrangement of tongues and correspondingly-perforated checks herein shown greatly facilitates the replacing of the checks after they have been used, for since a given check will only fit onepair of tongues in the region where it belongs it will be practically impossible for a clerk to replace the check on a wrong hook.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- '1. In a device of the class described, the combination with a supporting-board, of a plurality of checks bearing designating characters and provided with perforations varying on the different checks, and hooks upon which the checks can be placed, the hooks corresponding to the perforations in the checks.

2. In a device of the class described, the combination with a supporting-board, of a plurality of checks bearing designating characters, and having perforations with a number of variations, and hooks upon which the checks may be placed, corresponding to the perforations in the checks, the similar hooks being spaced as far apart as possible.

3. In a device of the class described, the

combination with a supporting-board, of a plurality of check-hook bars notched to form pairs of tongues, the pairs being variously spaced and the similar pairs being as far removed as possible from each other and a plurality of checks bearing designating characters and having pairs of perforations corresponding to the pairs of tongues.

4:. In a device of the class described, the

' combination with a supporting-board, of a plurality of check-hook bars notched to form tongues secured in slots in the board, lockingbars covering the ends of said check-hook bars and holding them in place, and a plurality of checks bearing designating characters and perforated to engage With the tongues.

5. In a device of the class described, the combination with a check-rack having a plurality of differently-constructed check-engaging devices, of a plurality of time-checks each arranged to fit upon one of the devices upon the check-rack, but not upon any of the other adjacent devices.

In Witness whereof I have'signed the above application for Letters Patent, at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, this 19th day of December, A. I). 1904.

ABRAHAM A. NEWMAN.

Witnesses:

CHAS. O. SHERVEY, K. M. CORNWALL. 

